Category: Performance
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all of it at the Royal Court Theatre review *****
all of it Royal Court Theatre, 11th February 2020 So we will have to wait for Alistair McDowall’s latest full length play The Glow at the Royal Court, postponed thanks to you know what. Mr McDowall was the pen, and brains, behind dystopian/sci-fi/mystery/thriller/social satires Brilliant Adventures, Talk Show, Captain Amazing,…
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Beckett Trilogy at the Jermyn Street Theatre review ****(and some other at-home Beckett stuff)
Beckett Trilogy: Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe, The Old Tune Jermyn Street Theatre, 4th February 2020 Fragments: Beckett by Brook – Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II, Neither , Come and Go – VIMEO, Bouffes du Nord – 26th March 2020 Endgame/Rough for Theatre II – Digital…
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The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at Wilton’s Music Hall review ****
The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel Wilton’s Music Hall, 16th January 2020 I was much taken with one of Told By An Idiot’s previous productions Napoleon Disrobed, which featured its co-founder and AD Paul Hunter alongside Ayesha Antoine, whose career unsurprisingly has gone fro strength to strength…
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Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead Theatre review **
Botticelli in the Fire Hampstead Theatre, 20th November 2019 Us pensioners, well nearly in the case of the Tourist, as well as the real-dealers who haunt the matinees at which he largely frequents, are getting our eyes opened in Roxana Silbert’s first season as AD at the HT. Nothing fusty…
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Little Baby Jesus at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****
Little Baby Jesus Orange Tree Theatre, 28th October 2019 No flies on this. Arinze Kene’s coming of age play which first appeared at the OvalHouse in 2011 is high octane stuff. Which here, under the direction of this year’s winner of the JMK Award, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, and a committed cast…
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Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine Galleries review ****
Faith Ringgold Serpentine Galleries, 22nd August 2019 Once again it has taken the Tourist way too long to gather his thoughts on something he has seen. Which means this snappy retrospective of the work of Africa- American artist has now finished. Sorry. It was Very Good. I guess that doesn’t…
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Blues in the Night at the Kiln Theatre review ***
Blues in the Night Kiln Theatre, 31st July 2019 Right. I’ll cut to the chase. Blues in the Night isn’t really a work of drama. Or really musical theatre. It is a nostalgic revue purporting to tell the story of three women, the Lady (Sharon D Clarke), the Woman (Debbie…
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Present Laughter at the Old Vic review ****
Present Laughter Old Vic Theatre, 24th July 2019 Ummed and ahhed about whether to see this. On the one hand it was Andrew Scott in the lead as one of theatre’s most renowned hyper-narcissists, Gary Essendine. On the other hand it was a play from the dreadful old reactionary Noel…
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Noye’s Fludde at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ****
Noye’s Fludde Theatre Royal Stratford East, 3rd July 2019 You might think it’s a bit sad really. A grown man in his 50s on his own at a children’s opera performed by a community that he cannot claim to be any part of. Unfortunately my kids never caught the Britten…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 